Just as the Spanish flag was lowered in Manila's Spanish royal city, a red flag was planted on the Cebu pier. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The air was filled with the smell of gunsmoke, black smoke was billowing from Cebu City, where the fire had been extinguished, and the dejected Spanish army was surrounded by a group of gun-armed Marines in a corner of the dock after surrendering their guns. In Cebu City, the second largest city in Luzon in the past, black smoke and crying were tightly mixed together, and they were inseparable.

Ye Tingyang, who waited for the reinforcements, led the fleet to float in the eastern part of Cebu Island, and the main force of the Marine Corps of the Navy Division first took Kalkar, which was only an empty shell, and the city was located in the middle of Cebu Island, not far from Cebu City on the east side.

The Marine Corps attacked from land to take Cebu City directly. In desperation, the Big Duck Navy chose to escape.

The breakthrough was placed in the eastern sea area where Ye Tingyang was located, and they obviously wanted to enter the Visayas Sea [Inter-Island Sea] north. Although the latter did not have a large port for the fleet to dock, it was well connected in all directions, with east, west, north and south as a way out.

They did not dare to venture into the waters at the western end of Cebu Island, that is, the Bohol Strait, because there were obviously a large number of Chinese naval warships. And the Ye Tingyang part of the eastern section, although there are follow-up warships incorporated in, is still a small fleet in general.

The Cebu Spanish naval fleet was based on three third-class sail battleships as the core, four fourth-class sail battleships as muscles, equipped with many three-masted and two-masted warships, as well as several armed merchant ships and transports, and rushed out of Cebu Port at dusk.

The fleet with three third-class sail battleships and four fourth-class sail battleships as the core is already a combat force that cannot be ignored for any maritime country. However, the greatest purpose of such a force in the face of the Chinese detachment, which was far inferior in number and tonnage, was to escape, and the greatest purpose of the Spanish navy was to escape and turn to Batavia in the south.

Even docking in Batavia under the name of 'disarming' is better than being captured by the Chinese or sunk in the sea. So the fleet, from the moment it rushed out of port, was on a dead end.

What kind of army is the Navy? The Navy is fighting spirit and blood.

Is a navy without fighting spirit and a desire to win?

It was like an undisciplined army rabble, slaughtered by organized and disciplined Chinese sailors. Although it did also allow some of the warships to escape into the Sea of Visayas. But Ye Tingyang also followed into the Sea of Visayas with a number of flying shear warships.

The Sea of Visayas, which is 300 miles long from north to south and 200 miles wide from east to west, is not large, and there are many islands in the sea, but they are not densely packed, but there are many islands and reefs on the shores of the islands. Moreover, the whole sea area can be called a super shallow sea, and the area with a depth of less than 20 meters can account for half of the whole sea area, and the Mindanao Sea across the water is completely two worlds. This should be noted.

After Ye Tingyang led his team to rush into the Sea of Visayas, the fleet was also dispersed and scattered to pursue him. His luck was good, and after less than two hours of travel to the northeast, the lookout in the mast sounded the alarm:

"A suspicious target has been spotted, and it is a fourth-class sail warship."

Half an hour later, the target finally appeared in the Ye Tingyang telescope in the bow, as if it had risen from the surface of the sea, with three masts above the sea level, gradually getting higher, and then the stern, the foremast, and the bow and stern of the Spanish galleon.

Double Gun Deck!

The standard of a European fourth-class sail warship. The estimated displacement is in the thousand-two-three-hundred-ton range.

He noticed the Burgundian flag flying on the mast, and yes, it was the Spaniards. The Burgundian flag with a yellow background began on the day the Spaniards landed in the Americas, and until now, it has always been the military flag of the big duck.

"Everyone is ready to fight!" Ye Tingyang excitedly gave an order, and his order was immediately transmitted to the whole ship. One rocket after another was removed from the ship's hold, and the artillery began to reload.

The Spanish ship in the distance had already noticed that something was wrong, and they desperately headed for the waters between Leyte and Masbat. There is a chain of small islands there. Beyond this body of water is a new inter-island sea - the Sama Sea.

From the Sama Sea, you can enter Leyte Gulf to the south, and then go all the way south to Java Island.

Ye Tingyang commanded the ships to pursue in the northeast direction, which was the correct calculation of this. Sure enough, it was not what he expected.

"1000 meters away, salvo of the whole fleet!"

Ye Tingyang had a feeling of cat and mouse in his heart. The officers and men of the entire Marlin 12 also had this sense of relaxation. There is no third ship in sight, and it is not too easy for a medium-sized flying shear bow warship to fight a fourth-class sail warship.

The cannon sounded, and the Spanish warship in front was suddenly enveloped in a group of water columns.

The distance of one thousand meters is definitely a distance beyond the effective range for the smoothbore guns of this era, and the naval battles of this era are often pulled to two or three hundred meters apart from each other.

So the Royal Navy, which began to innovate at the end of the 18th century, began to abandon long-barreled cannons in favor of more short-barreled heavy guns. The latter is a flat-firing large-caliber naval gun improved from a large-caliber mortar gun used by the army, because of the short body, so the artillery installed in the same space is more powerful and more convenient to load.

In the end, the power is huge, and the iron balls that people spit out are large. The salvo firepower of a battleship can be increased several times in an instant.

At this time, the Spaniards and Chinese sailors who had learned European techniques were all loaded with long-barreled cannons.

It's long, but it's not accurate.

This time, the shooting of Marlin 12 was completely wasted. Marlin 12 began to circle the rear tail of the Spanish ship.

An orthodox sailing warship, and a flying shear bow sailing ship of about the same tonnage, are in a relatively open position to compete with each other in a more flexible race, and the final result does not need to be guessed.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

It was like a red sun that suddenly jumped out of the sea, sprinkling countless endless rays of light on the sea. With the explosion, countless broken and broken wooden planks, breathless bodies, and stumps and broken arms that did not know their owners were floating and colliding with each other in the blood-colored waves, stirring, and merging.

The tail of the century sail warship was hit by two heavy rockets. It's over!

The weakest link in Western-style sailboats is their stern, which is like the back door of a wild boar, which has been plucked by a dog's paw.

Cutting the bow, Marlin 12 gave the Spanish galleon a few shells from the aft part to taste, and the Burgundian tenth flag with red traces on a yellow background fell from the mast, and a white flag was raised.

The Marlin 12 hunt was just one part of the operation, and such scenes played out again and again throughout the Visayas.

The Chinese sailors ended the entire battle of Manila and Cebu with a clean and neat rhythm, which brought great deterrence to the local indigenous and local Spanish colonial troops, and after taking Manila, the sailors and marines did not send people to contact those rebel armies in Luzon, nor did they send people to contact those Spanish colonial troops in the localities, but directly went to Wanwan to send an integrated brigade, plus 1,000 Japanese security forces, to comprehensively clean up Luzon Island. At the end of October, when Ye Tingyang arrived at Zamboanga in Mindanao with his warship, the whole of Luzon was China.

China, which ended the war against Manila with ease, did not immediately attack the Netherlands.

In Chen Ming's consideration, it is better for the Netherlands to wait for a while. After the news of the fall of Manila on behalf of France reached Nanjing, Perrier immediately submitted a very resolute protest to China, because he was not qualified to declare war on China on behalf of France, otherwise the relationship between China and France would have been completely broken, but at Perrier's request and urging, Pierre, who was more like a businessman than a government official, was getting rid of his own industry, which was eaten by the expanding Li family, as well as many industries of the French East India Company, It's almost eaten cleanly.

Although there were some interesting anecdotes in the middle, the firm determination of the French made Chen Ming mutter. If he eats the Netherlands now, will the British also be 'forced to sever diplomatic relations with China'?

For Britain and France, at this time there was no doubt that the interests of Europe far outweighed their interests in China.

The French have a large chain of interests in China, but they are absolute little brothers compared to the British.

If the French want to say goodbye to China, it can only have an unfavorable impact on China's foreign trade. Now that China has two more territories, Malay and Luzon, the economic benefits brought by these places can make up for China's losses. But if John Bull also says goodbye to China, it will hurt the muscles and bones.

At least half of China's trade with Europe is now tied to the British. To a certain extent, China really can't afford to offend Britain. Although after the bad relations between China and Britain, both sides suffered losses.

So Chen Ming temporarily put away his sharp minions.

In the Far East, whether on land or at sea, China is already the most powerful existence after defeating Russia and defeating Spain. After China's diplomatic spearhead abandoned Batavia, Chen Ming went directly to Malaysia.

Strike while the iron is hot.

Even to deal with the Malays, this does not require Chinese troops.

First, there was the Siamese Thonburi Dynasty in the north, which sent 30,000 troops to attack Kelantan. This is a show of favor by Chen Ming to Zheng Xin, people have always been obedient and obedient, Chen Ming can't find an excuse to beat Siam, and now Chen Ming's devouring tendency towards Siam has been greatly weakened.

Kelantan is the earliest and most powerful place for Chinese in the whole of Malay, not counting Kedah and Johor, which were directly shot by the Chinese government. Kelantan was the first place where the Chinese along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong took the initiative to migrate there.

The local Chinese organization raised troops to echo the Siamese soldiers, and Zheng Xin took Kelantan without much effort. Then the envoys of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs departed from Singapore, and Johor, Selangor, Pahang, Perak and other places, except for one Malacca, which was still left to the Netherlands, the entire Malay territory was all owned by China.

China will not use the name of the colony, and when he picked up the Chinese history book and flipped through it, Chen Ming saw the word 'bondage'.

This policy has a long history in ancient China, starting from the former Qin period, Qin Hui King and Bazhong, with Ba Shi as the barbarian monarch, the world is still Qin girl, and its Ba Shi Jue is not more. By the Tang Dynasty, the state had its heyday, and after the Song Dynasty, this policy disappeared from Chinese history and was replaced by the long-standing Tusi.

Chen Ming's current policy in Malay is 'toast'. It's just that a lot of innovation has been added to the traditional toast policy.

Permanent cession of places like Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Penang is called land donation;

All towns within the territory were opened to Chinese merchants to pass and do business at will;

absolute consular jurisdiction, not even a joint court;

These toasts have no diplomatic rights, and no land, port, or mineral can be ceded or leased to foreign countries;

China will assist the Tusi in building government institutions and a firearms army, and the Tusi government will employ powerful Chinese as political, financial, and military advisers.

Bilateral co-operation of police agencies.

It is up to China to ensure the integrity of the rights and interests of the toast.

China has the right to preach anywhere within the territory of the Tusi.

All Chinese hospitals, monasteries, schools, etc., established in the territory of Tusi are allowed to own their land.

Chinese subjects had the right to do business, reside, farm, mine, and other rights in Malay.

If there is a second traveler in this world, he will definitely feel very familiar when he sees the regulations presented by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to these toasts. Because this is the set that Japan made for Yuan Datou in the history of the original time and space - the 21st article of the destruction of China.

It is enough to replace Japan with China and China for toast. The Twenty-one Destruction of China became the Twenty-One Destruction of the Malays, and those provisions gave a good buff to the Buddhists who had already entered the Malays.

The English were envious of these laws, let alone the Dutch.

Imagine their 200 years of hard work in the East, and then look at the Chinese style of eating meat and drinking wine, it is really envious of them.

By the end of November of the fourth year of Chengtian, not only had the agreement between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Malay Agan Toast been signed, but the Malays did not know how harmful these conditions were to them, but they did not dare not sign them. After signing, they can still enjoy happiness, but if they don't sign, it will be the fate of the Sultan of Kelantan, and their lives will be gone.

In this cruel jungle society, weakness is the greatest original sin, and these Malay sultans are not even qualified to resist. Think of a country smaller than Japan, with a population of only two or three hundred people, but scattered into more than n 'small' tribes of hundreds of thousands of people, they can still have Mao's qualifications to decide their own fate?

At this time, there were no big demonstrations among the Malay people, so they didn't care about what happened to the superiors, and their sultan didn't think that such things should be told to everyone.

And since the signing of the agreement, they have been the Chinese Tusi, not some devil sultan.

The agreement between Portugal and the Netherlands on the island of Timor has also been signed with China. With the Manila Duck in front of the rook, the Portuguese and Dutch easily succumbed.

In the Qianqing Palace, Chen Ming looked at the Mara and Luzon Islands, which had been dyed red, stroked his beard, and smiled very complacently.

Beyond the blue islands of Jawa and Sumatra, and further south to the whole of Nanmingzhou, China's territory is much, much larger than its traditional territory.

Chen Ming did not stay in Nanjing this winter. Although the naval division troops have made a lot of contributions, and next year the large army will arrive at Xiangzhou [Alaska] along the northern front, and then begin to attack the big plate duck in California, and take advantage of the situation to take Seattle and Vancouver in the future, which will be carefully operated in the future, as a transit point for communicating Xiangzhou and Jiazhou [California].

But Chen Ming just didn't listen to the chatter of those generals in Nanjing, Chen Erbao pulled Chen Ming to be the coach himself, Chen Ming really stayed in Nanjing for the New Year, he was definitely uncomfortable this year.

Chen Ming chose to go out. (To be continued.) )